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The poston Surname

poston Name Meaning and History

  1. topographic name for someone who lived by a postern gate, from Old French posterne; in some cases it would have been a metonymic occupational name for a gatekeeper.
  2. habitational name from Poston in Herefordshire or Poston in Shropshire, which is named with an Old English personal name Possa + þorn ‘thorn tree’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The poston name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the poston family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of poston Families in the US in 1920
Number of poston families
 80-158
 27-79		 1-26
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Poston message board


Threads: 218 - Messages: 692
ThreadAuthorReplies
Poston (SC ??) GingerHederer28 64
Poston south carolina cthongteum 0
Anthony Poston born in Penn died in SC Angel Turner 7
Charlie Poston HeatherMontes 5
Looking for southern postons to finish my line Angel Turner 26
willie wesley poston becky (poston) hobbs 3
Postons from Geneva Alabama frybreadmojo 18
Marie S. POSTON/HUDSON b. ca 1871 Virginia - 1910 Census JayCeeNJJ 0
Grandfather Claude Thomas Poston Alfred L Van Dyne Jr 2
Poston Family in SC to GA smtay871 3
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